This forum is painfully dead. How about we make some lists to add something productive to this forum? Basically, I'm envisioning this thread for two things: 1) to suggest newbies a list of good songs from a band/artist or 2) to list your favorite songs from a band, just because you can, for ranting purposes. No criteria for who you pick. No need to give reasons for the songs you choose. No limit on the amount of songs you suggest, although ten-twenty would be an ideal number. It's kind of like picking your very own "Greatest Hits." I'll start.

The Who1. Baba O'Reily
2. Behind Blue Eyes
3. Join Together
4. You Better You Bet
5. 5:15
6. Won't Get Fooled Again
7. Squeeze Box
8. Who Are You
9. I Can See for Miles
10. Long Live Rock

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers1. Runnin Down a Dream
2. American Girl
3. Free Fallin
4. Breakdown
5. The Waiting
6. Don't Do Me Like That
7. Even the Losers
8. Listen to Her Heart
9. Into the Great Wide Open
10. I Won't Back Down

I could provide a greatest hits for bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, etc. However, I would like to provide all of you with a list of the greatest songs by a slightly more obscure band. The band, despite critical success, never received the commercial success they so deserved.

Due to their unfortunate obscurity, finding music (through whatever method you use, which is absolutely none of my business) by the Chainsaw Kittens might cause problems. If you feel up to doing so, your efforts will be rewarded handsomely.

PJ HARVEY (old list):
1. Dress - Dry2. Man-Size Sextet - Rid of Me3. 50ft Queenie - Rid of Me4. C'mon Billy - To Bring You My Love5. Send His Love to Me - To Bring You My Love6. One Line - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea7. This Mess We're In - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea8. The Life & Death of Mr. Badmouth - Uh Huh Her9. The Letter - Uh Huh Her10. You Come Through - Uh Huh Her

1. Us and Them
2. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2
3. Time
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Comfortably Numb
6. Another Gig in the Sky
7. Money
8. Run Like Hell
9. Young Lust
10. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (part 1-7)

Tool

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Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:20 am

Calculon

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Joined: Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:31 pmPosts: 392Location: Australia

This is a pretty good idea for a Topic...

QUEEN:

You're My Best Friend (1975: A Night At The Opera)
Bohemian Rhapsody (1975: A Night At The Opera)
Somebody To Love (1976: A Day At The Races)
We Are The Champions (1977: News Of The World)
Don't Stop Me Now (1978: Jazz)
Another One Bites The Dust (1980: The Game)
I Want To Break Free (1984: The Works)
One Vision (1986: A Kind Of Magic)
A Kind Of Magic (1986: A Kind Of Magic)
Who Wants To Live Forever (1986: A Kind Of Magic)

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Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:12 am

TheCyberMew

Lite Four

Joined: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:31 amPosts: 489Location: hecho en mexico

Just to clarify, the following lists are songs I would recommend to people who have not listened to the following bands. It is not a list of my favorite songs by these bands.

I didn't include any of the songs from their first album on this list since in my opinion it sounds a lot different than any of their other albums. But if you find you like them enough, it would be worth checking out as well.

Metropolis Pt. I: The Miracle and the Sleeper (Images and Words, 1992) (Length: 9:31)
The quintessential DT song, it has been featured on every DT live album to date, and also spawned the Metropolis Pt. II: Scenes From A Memory album.

Under A Glass Moon (Images and Words, 1992) (Length: 7:02)
Regularly features on lists of best guitar solos.

A Mind Beside Itself (Awake, 1994) (Length: 20:28)
A three-part epic dealing with religion. The third part, The Silent Man, draws from The Arabian Nights and is one of the few acoustic songs in the Dream Theater catalog.

The Mirror/Lie (Awake, 1994) (Length: 13:19)
Considered to be the prequels of the Alcoholics Anonymous Saga being written by DT drummer Mike Portnoy.

A Change of Seasons (A Change of Seasons, 1995) (Length: 23:06)
Released on Dream Theater's only EP (extended play), it deals with the death of Portnoy's mother and how we should live our life to the fullest.

Lines in the Sand (Falling Into Infinity, 1997) (Length: 12:05)
Featuring Doug Pinnick of King's X on backup vocals, this is a song that deals with how people miss the true point of religion: peace and love.

Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity (Metropolis Pt. II: Scenes From A Memory, 1999) (Length: 6:13)
Easily one of the most complex and crazy songs in the catalog, with over 120 time signature changes over the course of the song.

Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On (Metropolis Pt. II: Scenes From A Memory, 1999) (Length: 6:37)
An excellent song that would work well at funerals.

The Glass Prison (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, 2002) (Length: 13:52)
The beginning of the Alcoholics Anonymous Saga and arguably one of Dream Theater's heaviest and most aggressive songs.

In The Name of God (Train of Thought, 2003) (Length: 14:15)
Their second political song (The Great Debate being the first), and an amazing end to the album.

Octavarium (Octavarium, 2005) (Length: 24:00)
The second-longest song in the catalog (24 minutes), it is the band's ode to progressive rock and considered by some to be DT's magnum opus. Influences from Pink Floyd and Yes, among others, can be clearly heard in this track.

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Green Day has a song called "In the End". Do a little research before you post about something you don't know, chief.

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Nickelback1. Savin' Me
2. If Everyone Cared
3. Someone That You're With
4. Another Hole In the Head
5. Believe It Or Not
6. Do This Anymore
7. Feelin' Way Too Damn Good
8. Animals
9. Photograph
10. Someday
11. Follow You Home

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Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:02 am

Frost

THE POWER IS ON!

Joined: Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:29 amPosts: 1564Location: Purple Ranger

I recently bought the Led Zeppelin: Complete Studio Recordings box set, so I've introduced myself to Zep's entire discography in the course of about... 24 hours. I've split my list into two parts, to contrast them with the official Led Zeppelin Early/Latter Days "Best of" albums, which left out a lot of my favorite songs.

The major problem with the official "Early Days" collection is that it is much too dominated by Led Zeppelins I and IV. As a result, Led Zeppelins II and III were hack-jobbed and, thus, are VERY poorly represented. I mean, I get that III is probably the most underplayed album in Zeppeline's catalogue, but you do NOT ignore "Tangerine," people!

Latter Days: Houses of the Holy-Coda
1. "The Rain Song" - Houses of the Holy2. "Over the Hills and Far Away" - Houses of the Holy3. "Dancing Days" - Houses of the Holy4. "The Ocean" - Houses of the Holy5. "Houses of the Holy" - Physical Graffiti (album one)
6. "Trampled Under Foot" - Physical Graffiti (album one)
7. "Kashmir" - Physical Graffiti (album one)
8. "Down by the Seaside" - Physical Graffiti (album two)
9. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" - Presence10. "Fool in the Rain" - In Through the Out Door11. "Carouselambra" - In Through the Out Door12. "All My Love" - In Through the Out Door13. "Travelling Riverside Blues" - Coda

The major problem with "Later Days" is that a lot of the songs in the second half of Zeppelin's career are pushing the eight-minute mark, with MANY passing ten minutes. You can't represent six albums worth of this kind of material on one disc. Plus, they completely goofed up with the selections from Houses of the Holy.

That being said, these are only my 25-30 absolute favorite Led Zeppelin songs. The problem is that I've now listened to almost everything they put out, and Led Zeppelin absolutely does NOT do "bad songs." That's why the Early & Latter Days collections just don't work - Zeppelin's ratio of good to bad songs is so incredibly large.

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